Kathopanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday,  April   28, 2021. 07:51. PM. Chapter 6: The Meaning of Not Coming Back -8. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This ‘I’ that we are, which is not the physical body or the mind, is the mystery that we are. Every person, every organism is a mystery by itself. That is why it asserts itself as ‘I am I’. This is why we want respect, we want a word of thanks, we want to be received properly with a warm welcome, we want to be spoken to with a kind word, we wish that our existence be recognised by others. Otherwise, we feel slighted. “Oh, I was not even looked at. I went there.  They didn’t speak to me. I was nobody.” Our greatness has not been diminished merely because others have not spoken to us. Our greatness is still there. Yet we feel as if we are disregarded because of the non-recognition meted out to us by other people. We wish that our existe

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday,  April   21, 2021. 11:34. AM. Chapter 6: The Meaning of Not Coming Back - 7. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The knowledge that we have that we exist is an intuition; it is not a perception. Even if we close our eyes, plug our ears, and desensitise all our sense organs, we will know that we are. This knowledge that we are is an indication of what we consider as intuitive grasp. We need not require a proof to demonstrate that we are existing, while we may require a proof to show that other things are existing. What is the proof that we are existing? There is no proof because every proof proceeds from the fact of our existence. The fact that we exist does not require a proof inasmuch as it is the basis of every other proof. I am. There is no proof for this I am-ness. Now, forgetting for the time being the way in which we proceed with argumen

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday,April   02, 2021. 12:14. PM. Chapter 6: The Meaning of Not Coming Back - 6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The yoga practice is an attempt at the coming together in union of the essentiality of ourselves with the essentiality of everything else. Only in this real union can we be true friends of anybody. At present we are only artificially concocted relative friends of people, due to which reason we can be separated from our friends. There can be bereavement, which is so common in this world. Yoga is not physical contact, it is not sense perception, it is not coming in contact with the physical nature of things because, remember, the physical nature is not the real nature of things. It is an investiture, it is a cover, a shroud, which has been put on by another mystery which is that we are not able to understand what we really are. What are we r